Note 14 bis — Chapter XVII · BORON, ALUMINIUM, AND THE ANALOGOUS METALS OF THE THIRD GROUP

It appears to me that from this point of view it is possible to understand the apparently contradictory results of different investigators, especially those of Gay-Lussac (and Thénard), Davy, Berzelius, and Bazaroff. In the form in which the reaction of BF3 on water is given here, it is evident that the act of solution in water is accompanied by complex but direct chemical transformations, and I think that this example should prove the justness of those observations upon the nature of solutions which are given in Chapter I.